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FUSIL CHEVROTINES [3 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Antique and Obsolete Weapons
DEF

... a short firearm with an expanding bore, usually flaring out in a bell at the muzzle.

CONT

The blunderbuss ... was a specialized weapon designed to scatter a quantity of shot in a wide pattern at relatively short range. ... The popular notion that blunderbusses were loaded with stones, broken glass, nails or bits of scrap iron is false.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes anciennes
DEF

Fusil court dont le canon est évasé en forme de trompe et qu'on charge de plusieurs petites balles ou chevrotines [...]

CONT

[...] le tromblon [...] apparaît en Angleterre au milieu du XVIIe siècle [...] Il fut toujours entouré de légendes [...] laissant croire que cette arme pouvait être chargée de vieux clous, et même de vieux souliers.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
  • Police
DEF

A short barreled shotgun, usually cylinder bored (without a choke), designed to fire ball, buckshot or special projectiles and used for guard duty of riot control.

OBS

riot gun: The term is also sometimes used to refer to other types of riot control weapons, i.e. gas gun, grenade launcher, etc.

OBS

riot gun: term and definition officialized by the Small Arms Terminology Working Group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
  • Police
DEF

Fusil de chasse à canon court, d’habitude sans étranglement, destiné au tir de cartouches à balle, à chevrotines ou de projectiles spéciaux.

OBS

Il est utilisé pour le gardiennage et les opérations de maintien de l’ordre.

OBS

fusil anti-émeute : Le terme est parfois aussi utilisé pour désigner d’autres types d’armes à feu conçues pour le maintien de l’ordre, i.e. le fusil lance-gaz, le fusil lance-grenades, etc.

OBS

fusil anti-émeute : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.

Key term(s)
  • fusil antiémeute

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Armas ligeras
  • Policía
DEF

Fusil que dispara pelotas de goma o granadas antidisturbios adaptando una bocacha al tubo.

OBS

antidisturbios: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, explica que la voz "antidisturbios" se escribe con el prefijo "anti-" unido a la base, sin guion ni espacio en blanco, como se recoge en la entrada correspondiente del Diccionario de la lengua española.

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Record 3 1986-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères

Spanish

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